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How do I segregate the on-call hours for Monday morning and Monday night's hours?

  • May 4, 2026
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We are a medical staffing company that requires on-call to answer issues during after hours on week nights and all day weekends. FYI our office work hours as Monday to Friday, 9 to 5.

Our issue is in between on Sundays and Monday mornings hours until offices open at 9AM.

Our on-call team calls me every weekend with the issue of not receiving calls from the call queue because the hours are not set correctly. 

My last conversation with a Ring Central support rep, suggested the hours on the work hours on Sunday from 12:00 AM to 9:00 AM will be suffice until Monday morning. However, 1 PM the on-call team reaches out to me regarding not receiving calls and indeed it turns out the calls started dropping immediately at 9 AM Sunday morning instead of Monday morning.

In addition for some context, Monday has a time filled in because of our nights have to have from 5 PM when offices close to 9 AM Tuesday morning for our weeknights on-call.

Please help! Our staff are getting frustrated with Ring Central unable to fix this.

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Mary-Community_Moderator
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Hi ​@ASinghNYHC,

The reason your calls dropped at 9:00 AM Sunday is likely because "Work Hours" for a single day cannot bridge across midnight into the next day in a single entry, and the system often treats Sunday as the start of the new week. When the support rep told you 12:00 AM to 9:00 AM would work, they were likely thinking of a single-day view, but the system saw 9:01 AM Sunday as the start of "After Hours" because no further hours were defined for that day.

To get your 24/7 coverage (Office + On-Call) working seamlessly, we need to adjust your Call Queue settings to account for the "hand-off" between your staff.

 

To ensure no calls are dropped, your Call Queue "Work Hours" must be active whenever someone (Office or On-Call) needs to receive a call. Since you are a 24/7 operation in practice, the most stable way to configure this is to set the Call Queue itself to 24 hours / 7 days a week. You then manage who gets the calls using Custom Rules or User Schedules.

However, if you prefer to keep the specific schedule in the Queue settings, follow this exact map:

Day Queue Work Hours Who is Answering?
Monday 9:00 AM – 11:59 PM 9-5 Office / 5-Midnight On-Call
Tuesday-Thursday 12:00 AM – 11:59 PM Midnight-9 On-Call / 9-5 Office / 5-Midnight On-Call
Friday 12:00 AM – 11:59 PM Midnight-9 On-Call / 9-5 Office / 5-Weekend On-Call
Saturday 24 Hours On-Call Team
Sunday 24 Hours On-Call Team
Monday morning 12:00 AM – 9:00 AM On-Call Team (Bridges to Monday Office Start)

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  • May 6, 2026

@Mary-Community_Moderator 

Thank you for your fast response!


Mary-Community_Moderator
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@Mary-Community_Moderator 

Thank you for your fast response!

You’re welcome! Pease try it, and let me know how it goes.